Talk:Margaret Jacobs

Primary topic
If you're arguing that Margaret E. Jacobs is the primary topic, that article should be here. If it isn't, then per TWODABS, there should be a dab here. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2020 (UTC) Resigning with intended account Guettarda (talk) 17:50, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Just not so. See WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT.  A primary topic article should have the correct title per WP:TITLE, which may or not be the same as one or more ambiguous terms.  There might be a case for renaming, but the for with the middle initial is also used widely as is common for academics.  Renaming simply Margaret Jacobs is also just begging to need disambiguating when more people with the same name come along.


 * With only two names to disambiguate, one will almost always be a primary topic and a hatnote will suffice to disambiguate. You can't really go wrong doing this between only two names, readers either arrive directly where they wanted to be or are one click away.  Given that Margaret Jacobs is a longstanding redirect to one article and the other was only created today, it would be premature to pick the newer article as the primary topic although I wouldn't argue strongly against it.  Neither person seems to exactly be a household name but maybe page traffic will give us a clue in a few weeks time.  Lithopsian (talk) 18:34, 13 March 2020 (UTC)